The parents of a co-worker of mine convinced him that the Salvation Army was an emergency parental control enforcing organization to be called upon by desperate parents. They often used the threat 'Don't make me call the Salvation Army'.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the salvation army was an actual army.Anon
- I used to believe that all parents were called "Inge and Dirk", just like mine— eva
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike